BIRD'S DOUBLE NESTS
The strange "double nests" of thrushes are discussed' in the current issue of Forest and Bird in which it is afl'irme'l that a second nest is built on top of one which has lor some 1 reason been abandoned. The writer saysi "These socalled 'double nests' have given rise to. the rather romantic theory that the thrush is a social bird and that two different pairs of bir'Js are nesting together. The mistake lies in endowing the bird with the attribute of being sociable or gregarious: but when nesting, or at any other time, the song-thrush is neither. All birds are individualists, although many species are gregarious, just like a crowd of humans in the street on a late shopping night, each bent on his own affairs—gregarious, but not sociable."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 1, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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133BIRD'S DOUBLE NESTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 1, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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